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LaTasha Crawford's business has seen its ups and downs during the pandemic, but she said the janitorial side of her operation saw a solid increase in demand.
Despite the economic pressures of the COVID-19 pandemic and decades of discriminatory disadvantage, Black businesses owners in Kansas City are staying resilient.
LaTasha Crawford isn't a doctor or scientist, but she is in the business of killing viruses.
Crawford is the owner of Miscellaneous Staffing Services, which does janitorial and staffing work throughout the metro.
"It is a pandemic, and so I think there is a huge demand to sanitize, to decontaminate areas," she said. "Here we are available, you know, to provide people that's going to help go in there and kill that virus."